Word: dime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into one session with his advisers, but forgot to take coins with him also and had to ask Aide David Fischer for some. The purpose was to try out a gesture that he later used on TV: holding up the greenback in one hand and tossing a quarter, a dime and a penny onto his desk with the other in order to dramatize the way inflation has shriveled the purchasing power of a dollar earned in 1960 to a mere 36? today...
When she took the stand in her own defense last week-at various times contrite, teary, arrogant and bewildered-Harris brought near a climax a two-month courtroom drama that has combined the dime-store romantics of a Barbara Cartland novel with the sizzling melodrama of a Perry Mason episode. The trial has produced steamy headlines across the country and attracted the toniest of courtroom spectators, at least five of whom are writing books on the case. "I feel Mrs. Harris' behavior on the witness stand is outrageous," said one of them. "She sits there outsmarting everyone, trying...
...accuracy of better than a millionth of an inch, tolerances that would be wasted in a ground-based instrument because of atmospheric disturbances. The telescope's pointing system, locking onto guide stars and controlled by flywheels, will be able to fix on an object the size of a dime at a distance of 400 miles...
...ostrich egg for $17, a slink of ferrets for $21 apiece, two ducks for $4 each, and a pregnant monkey named Bonnie for $575. A female African lion cub, not more than 6 in. high, 30 in. long including tail, and only a few weeks old, goes for $450. "Dime a dozen," says a professional cat man. "Everybody's got too many lions...
...markets, were dumping milk on the roads. That year 38 persons committed suicide in the county, reflecting the 42% rise in Iowa's suicides since 1928, the year before the crash of the stock market. The most popular song on station WOC was Brother, Can You Spare a Dime...